Short Forms – James Thompson

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Thought

Personal reflections, ideas, and interpretations about the world around me.

Observation

Patterns, trends, or interesting things I’ve noticed worth sharing.

Question

Questions I’m pondering or seeking input on.

Its all fugazi

It seems to me that there is just an unreasonable supply of fugazi stemming from AI companies; specifically the ones that are pushing the frontier (Anthropic, Google…

Are we the reward hackers?

The evolutionary process is a search process for an agent that can survive and reproduce, this goal is instilled into humans as a reward function through an innate desire…

It doesn’t say anywhere it has to be good

I think we borrow too much from religious—namely Abrahamic—narratives that ‘there is a greater plan’. Therefore we seem to think that things can turn out well even if we…

AI forecasts are math bamboozling methods

I am quite a fan of the AI 2027 project. Its great to raise awareness of that AI could appear soon and could go bad. Yet its importance to stay sober that these “models” are…

AI village: Watch and be amazed

People can’t grasp the implication of AI systems because they don’t see any examples of the implications in action.

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